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title: This group of around 400 armed vigilantes, including veterans of the… — Fiji · tree and pragmatics
description: This group of around 400 armed vigilantes, including veterans of the U.S. Civil War, had a battle with the Kai Colo near the village of Cubu, in which both sides had to withdraw. Who acts: group, sides. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Fiji» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Fiji, sentence 142

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From Wikipedia, [«Fiji»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiji), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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This group of around 400 armed vigilantes, including veterans of the U.S. Civil War, had a battle with the Kai Colo near the village of Cubu, in which both sides had to withdraw.

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**Who acts:** group, sides · **What happens:** have, withdraw · **To what, where:** battle, village

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Fiji». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (group, sides), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Fiji:142
# text = This group of around 400 armed vigilantes, including veterans of the U.S. Civil War, had a battle with the Kai Colo near the village of Cubu, in which both sides had to withdraw.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	around	around	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	400	400	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
6	armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	vigilantes	vigilante	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	including	including	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	veterans	veteran	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	U.S.	U.S.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
14	Civil	Civil	PROPN	NNP	_	15	flat	_	_
15	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
17	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	Kai	Kai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Colo	Colo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
24	near	near	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Cubu	Cubu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	obl	_	_
32	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	33	det	_	_
33	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
34	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	withdraw	withdraw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | this group of 400 armed vigilantes and veterans of the U.S. Civil War | a battle |  | the village of Cubu |  | with the Kai Colo | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Patient |
| 2 | **have** | past | both sides |  |  |  |  | which *obl* | tree rules |
| 3 | **withdraw** | to-infinitive | both sides *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Fiji», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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